hi today I'm going to take you through
doing an assessment on a student using
the pen and benchmark software when you
are signed into the P and benchmark
software on the home screen please
scroll down to the bottom of the page
under common actions
please select start new assessment this
will bring you to a screen where you can
select the student you'd like to do the
assessment on you can do this by typing
their name in the search bar if the
student is part of a group you'll need
to expand that group and then you can
select the student it will provide you
with a brief history of the student with
their current reading level and the last
date of assessment it will also show any
notes that have been added to that
student's profile we can scroll down and
click start new assessment now on the
left hand side of screen assessment
details will include the teacher
assessing and the assessment date on the
right hand side of screen there are two
buttons to select from area which refers
to the p.m. benchmark reading assessment
resource kits and literacy assessment
which refers to the pinyon benchmark
literacy assessment kits today we're
going to select literacy assessment we
can then select la1 and then the
assessment type the options are pre
level 1 assessment p.m. level 1 through
30 assessments or post level 30
assessments today we're going to select
the p.m. level 1 through 30 we can now
select the book we want the assessment
to be done on today we are going to
select a level 2 title my little dog it
will provide you with the text type
running words and a brief outline of the
story under though we can click start
student assessments
first thing that we'll show is the
retelling it will provide you with a
script that you can read out to the
student and prepare the students for
retelling as well as after the student
has completed their reading on the right
hand side of screen it will provide you
with a level of understanding of the
student and provide you with questions
in a yes-or-no format you will know that
there is a bar underneath this that
calculates based on the answers you have
provided please note that this can be
manually changed if you feel the need to
under this is a summary where additional
notes can be added on the bottom
right-hand side of page please click the
tank reading record button this will
bring you to the reading record section
again it will provide you with a script
that you can read to the student in the
middle of the screen a two buttons to
select R on the computer with the X
allows you to take a paper record of the
reading record and the input
calculations later on the next one is
the log button which changes the layout
of the reading record as you can see
here
to refer back to the previous screen we
click the text button on the right hand
side of screen are the icons that you'll
be using during your reading record
please note there is a Help button
available which will take you to our
p.m. benchmark health desk and it offers
a description of each icon and when to
use it
to conduct a reading record you can
begin by clicking the tick button and
following along with your student if a
student makes an error you can click the
e button input the word and click Submit
if your student self-corrects themselves
press the ESC button and then continue
on with your ticking once the reading
record has been completed you can add
additional notes then we can move on to
the comprehension section by clicking
down the bottom right-hand side of
screen this will bring you to the
comprehension section where again it
provides you with the script that you
can read out to the student and normal
comprehension questions both in literal
and inferential format again the
questions are valid or invalid format
can also type in the answers that the
student has written
hello is a bar that again will calculate
based on the answers you've provided
however you can manually change that if
need be we can scroll down and move on
to analyze the reading record analyze
the reading record review the miscues
and self corrections marking each as a
meaning structural structure or visual
you can do this by hovering over with
your mouse and clicking the appropriate
icon on the
hence on a screen again are notes
available to be input if necessary on
the bottom here we're going to click the
reading behaviors which will allow us to
move on in the assessment the next step
is the reading behaviors where it
focuses on knowledge and skills
strategies and fluency this one allows
you to tick all those that apply
again we have notes section available to
import additional information tick those
that apply in the strategy section
and last one will be fluency
influencing urine they're able to select
one of the following four please also
note that during this process on the top
left-hand side of screen is the
hamburger icon if we select this we are
able to refer back to previous steps
that we may have missed or needed to add
additional information if we want to
resume at the previous screen we can
click the hamburger icon again and hide
the menu the next step is assessment
summary which will take us to a summary
of the assessment just completed please
note that there is an additional video
that provides this information to you
and that's doing an assessment on a
student using the PM benchmark software
thank you
you